The Metallic Orchard

understand, the principles principles; original: Principia; the fundamental components or "first beginnings" from which all matter was believed to be formed of metal from which it
was made, to dissolve dissolve; original: solviren; the chemical process of turning a solid into a liquid state fixed metals,
and to extract extract; original: extrahiren; to pull out a specific essence or substance from a raw material the principles from them,
is not possible for him without adding the quicksilver original: argentum vivum
of the metals; instead, let him be content with
those beginnings which Nature herself has pre-
pared for his benefit, and has therefore reduced meaning brought down into a usable, material form:
Separate from each the pure from the impure original: purum ab impure,
and bring such things together again properly;
but let the artist the alchemist or practitioner, through a great fire,
not burn away or chase off the life,
and thereby also observe well that his
philosophical child philosophical child; original: philosophisches Kind; a metaphor for the developing alchemical substance, often the nascent Philosopher's Stone, which must be "nurtured" like an infant
suffers neither hunger nor thirst,
nor is it drowned or stifled by
excessive moistening and flooding;
So will he finally, and so far as
GOD is willing to grant him such,
happily reach the final goal;
above all things, the Philosopher the seeker of alchemical wisdom
must know which is the right
philosophical sulfur sulfur; original: Schwefel; in alchemy, one of the three "primes" (with mercury and salt), representing the soul and the principle of combustibility,
immature mineral electrum original: Electrum minerale immaturum,
or Salt of nature original: Sal naturae,
or quicksilver of the metals original: Argentum vivum metallorum;
by this is by no means meant
running mercury original: Mercurius or
Tyrolean red sulfur.